Open AccessSymposium: Unemployment in New Zealand (Part One) Introduction: Unemployment and its consequences
Author(s) -
Brian Easton
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
new zealand journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0110-0637
DOI - 10.26686/nzjir.v7i2.3515
Subject(s) - unemployment , economics , full employment , period (music) , demographic economics , development economics , labour economics , economic growth , physics , acoustics
Research on unemployment in New Zealand is not as widespread as in most affluent economies, no doubt partly reflecting that for the post-war period up to the late 1960s unemployment, however measured, and the social problems arising from it were small. In the 1970s, unemployment began to increase sharply, reflecting difficulties in economic performance, and its social consequences became a matter of public concern.